Chris Turner is the author of “Planet Simpson: How A Carton Masterpiece Defined A Generation.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.
Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.
David Bainbridge tells Steve Paulson that as soon as a woman becomes pregnant, the baby begins to dominate her biology, causing significant changes in her immune system.
Austin Grossman is the author of a novel called "Soon I Will Be Invincible" and tells Jim Fleming that he tried to respect the comics conventions in his prose.
Information overload seems to be the quintessential 21st century problem. Actually, people have worried about this for centuries, going back to the ancient Romans. Ann Blair provides a short history of information-gathering.
If gender’s a role we’re all playing, and new roles are emerging, maybe it's time for new costumes.
A new company in San Francisco is making clothes specifically for butch women and transmen. Saint Harridan’s first order just arrived, and we were there as customers suited up…
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